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A 16-year-old girl was taken to a hospital Sunday afternoon for a gunshot wound, police said. Officers responded at about 1:06 p.m. to West Front Street near Broad Street in the township for a report of a person suffering from a gunshot wound. There, officers found the girl inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound, authorities said.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a truck stop in Luzerne County. Police said a man who claimed to have a gun robbed the Pilot truck stop along Route 315 in Pittston Township just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

Philadelphia: A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 12-year-old boy was injured after a gunman opened fire on a group sitting on a porch in North Philadelphia. It happened shortly after midnight Sunday on the 2700 block of North 19th Street. The 16-year-old boy was shot in the chest and neck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Philadelphia: An investigation is underway after two people were found shot to death inside an SUV in the Port Richmond. It happened around 10 p.m. Thursday in the 3500 block of Amber Street. Officers arrived to find two shooting victims inside a Honda SUV: a woman in the driver's seat and a man in the front passenger's seat.

Two years after a woman was shot to death while walking to her car in Williamsport, a man has been found guilty of third-degree murder. Knowledge Frierson from New Jersey shot Carolyn Barr in October of 2015 outside her nephew's home on Brandon Avenue.

Strawberry Mansion: Action News has learned that one of two men shot in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia has died. The gunfire erupted at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 2800 block of West Harold Street. Officers arrived to find one man shot in the torso and another in the leg.

Philadelphia: One person was killed after a car crashed into a warehouse in the Hunting Park section. It happened around 1 a.m. on Rising Sun Avenue. Police said the 75-year-old male passenger was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The 29-year-old female driver suffered internal injuries and was undergoing surgery

Reading: A man was killed in a shooting early Tuesday morning. It happened just after 2 a.m. near Moss and Spring streets. Officials said a man was shot in the body and taken to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Juniata County: Two children and an adult were injured in a fast-moving house fire in the Juniata section of Philadelphia. The blaze broke out at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 3800 block of Bennington Street. When firefighters arrived, thick smoke was showing from the row home

Police are investigating an overnight shooting in the city of York. Around 11:40 p.m. Monday, officers were called to the 300 block of East Market Street. Upon arrival, officials found 19-year-old Jose Angel Aponte Aponte.

A man was shot in the back of the head at close range in the West Kensington section of Philadelphia, police said. It happened around 9 p.m. Sunday along the 2100 block of North Hancock Street. The 34-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

A former central Pennsylvania university student who is accused of trying to abort his girlfriend’s pregnancy by putting bleach in her water has pleaded guilty. Twenty-one-year-old Theophilous Washington pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted homicide of an unborn child. The Washington, D.C. resident had also been charged with attempted homicide of the woman and reckless endangerment. Lancaster County prosecutors say those charges will officially be dropped at sentencing.

King of Prussia: Upper Merion police shot a robbery suspect outside of the King of Prussia Mall Sunday afternoon. It happened around 4 p.m. outside of the Nordstrom side of the mall, near Gulph Road and Mall Boulevard. Police said the suspect was behind three armed robberies - one Saturday at the mall and two others in Delaware.

Penbrook Police are looking for the person who shot a 15-year-old boy. Investigators said the boy was shot in the leg after a fight at a party in the 300 block of South 28th Street at 9:15 Saturday night.